Sean T. Collins has written about comics and popular culture professionally since 2001 and on this very blog since 2003. He has written for Maxim, The Comics Journal, Stuff, Wizard, A&F Quarterly, Comic Book Resources, Giant, ToyFare, The Onion, The Comics Reporter and more. His comics have been published by Top Shelf, Partyka, and Family Style. He blogs here and at Robot 6.

* I wasn't sure what the big idea behind Marvel's upcoming event comic Secret Invasion was going to be--I mean, I knew it was about Skrulls replacing superheroes but I wasn't sure what the philosophical hook a la Civil War's bowdlerized privacy vs. security debate was, if any. But in this interview with writer Brian Michael Bendis about the comic, he reveals that a) there is a religious element to the Skrulls' plan of conquest, and b) the Skrulls totalitarian way of life is going to actually appeal to some of the characters. I'm still not sold at all on Bendis as an event writer, but it is nice to see Marvel continuing to blend "hey isn't that neat" comicsy ideas with intelligible ideological/emotional-struggle angles in their big projects. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)